29 Playlists To Listen To When Everything Sucks
Whether you need to calm down, cheer up, or let it all out, there's a mix that will make it all feel OK.
1. This calming mix that comes with a guided anxiety relief exercise:
Featuring:
1. The Wolves (Act I and II) — Bon Iver
2. Don't Panic — Coldplay
3. The Great Dictator Speech — Charlie Chaplin
4. Safe — M83
5. Two Ativan — Florist
Find the playlist and instructions here.
2. This motivational mix for getting better:
Featuring:
1. Fight Song — Rachel Platten
2. I Wanna Get Better — Bleachers
3. Classic — MKTO
4. One Foot — fun.
5. Beautiful Soul — Jesse McCartney
Check out the full mix here.
4. This playlist for when you're fed up and want to let it all out:
Featuring:
1. The Sticks — Mother Mother
2. Future Starts Slow — The Kills
3. Retirement — Kaiser Chiefs
4. Nugget — Cake
5. Gasoline — Halsey
Check out the whole playlist here.
6. This mix that will lull your anxious mind to sleep:
Featuring:
1. Lover's Artic — Arms and Sleepers
2. Doc's Song — Rostam Batmanglij
3. EssM Theme — Jon Brion
4. Yumeji's Theme — Shigeru Umebayashi
5. Cinemas For Marseille — Arms and Sleepers
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8. This fun pick-me-up:
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9. This mix that will warm you up and quiet your thoughts:
Featuring:
1. Arrival In Nara — Alt-J
2. Marvin's Room (Drake Cover) — Sir Sly
3. Pawn Shop Blues — Lana Del Ray
4. No Diggity (Blackstreet Cover) — Alice Jemima
5. Baby — Warpaint
Check out the whole playlist here.
10. This mix of covers of all your favorite songs as comforting AF lullabies:
Featuring:
1. I Will Follow You Into the Dark — Death Cab for Cutie
2. The A Team — Ed Sheeran
3. Fix You — Coldplay
4. Carry On, Wayward Son — Kansas
5. Under The Bridge — Red Hot Chili Pepper
Listen to the whole playlist here.
Listen to the whole mix here.
12. This mix that basically can't fail to make you feel better:
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13. This dreamy electronic mix to tune out to:
Featuring:
1. Unknown (feat. Vanessa Elisha) — xxyyxx
2. Lost in Tokyo — Koreless
3. Tried To — Tapes
4. One Day They'll Know (ODESZA Remix) — Pretty Lights
5. Real — Years & Years
Check out the full playlist here.
14. This mix of layered dual-headphone songs that will transport you to another plane:
Featuring:
1. One Way Or Another Vocals — One Direction
2. This Is Gospel (Piano Version) — Panic! At The Disco
3. You — The 1975
4. Torn (Empty Arena Audio Effect) – One Direction
5. Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (Layered) — Arctic Monkeys
Check out the full playlist here.
15. This soul playlist that will have you feelin' good in no time:
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16. This mix for when you want to wallow in your feels for a bit:
Featuring:
1. Sometime Around Midnight — The Airborne Toxic Event
2. Stubborn Love — The Lumineers
3. Give Me Love — Ed Sheeran
4. Landfill — Daughter
5. Fools — Lauren Aquilina
Check out the full playlist here.
17. This mix for giving you hope:
Featuring:
1. Hoppípolla — Sigur Rós
2. Trains — Porcupine Trees
3. Comforting Sounds — Mew
4. Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása
5. Acropolis — Jazzkamikaze
Listen to the full playlist here.
18. This mix for when you just want the world to fuck off:
Featuring:
1. Queen Of The World — Ida Maria
2. E.V.O.L — Marina and the Diamonds
3. Bad Day — Darwin Deez
4. Fucking — Yournalist
5. Bad Karma — Ida Maria
Check out the full mix here.
20. This mix that will help you smile, even when you feel like you can't:
Featuring:
1. Africa – Toto
2. Bring Night – Sia
3. Buddy Holly – Weezer
4. Come On Eileen – Save Ferris
5. Dancing With Myself – The Donnas
Check out the full playlist here.
21. This two-part mix that will calm you down, then pump you up:
Featuring:
1. Bach's Sonata No. 1 In G Minor, Bwv 1001 Ii. Fuga Allegro — Chris Thile
2. No One But You — Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile
3. Ooh Child — Beth Orton
4. Out of the Woods — Nickel Creek
5. Some Other Time — Bill Evans
Check out the full playlist here.
Listen to the full mix here.
23. This ethereal mix to help you escape this planet for a little bit:
Featuring:
1. Cosmic Love (Instrumental) — Florence + The Machine
2. Breathe Me (Instrumental) — Sia
3. Ride (Instrumental) — Lana Del Rey
4. Aurora In Faerieland — James Newton Howard
5. Feast of Starlight — Howard Shore
Check out the full playlist here.
24. This mixtape of sad songs that are somehow calming AF:
Featuring:
1. Be Calm — fun.
2. That’s Okay — The Hush Sound
3. Little Talks — Of Monsters And Men
4. Everything Is Alright — Motion City Soundtrack
5. Round Here — Counting Crows
Check out the full playlist here.
25. This mix of feel-good rap and hip hop that will keep you chill:
Featuring:
1. Big Bank Dank — Olu
2. Dreamers — Marvin Divine
3. Girlfriend — Tayyib Ali
4. End of the Road — Nick Luebke
5. Wrong (feat. Spodee) — B.o.B
Listen to the whole playlist here.
27. This inspiring mix that will make you feel like you can keep it together:
Featuring:
1. Afterlife — Ingrid Michaelson
2. Believer — American Authors
3. Sweet Serendipity — Lee DeWyze
4. King — Lauren Aquilina
5. The Middle — Jimmy Eat World
Check out the full playlist here.
28. This mix that will help you forget all your problems:
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29. This calm but uplifting mix to remind you that you'll be OK:
Featuring:
1. House by the Sea — Moddi
2. How Do You Feel Today? — Gabrielle Aplin
3. Oxford Comma — Vampire Weekend
4. The Only Place — Best Coast
5. I'll Follow You Into The Dark (Cover) — Gavin Mikhail
Listen to the whole playlist here.